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More "Country store" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saw that the front of the house was a small country store, so they went around to the door and opened it. A bell jangled sharply as they entered, and from somewhere in the rear a woman came forward. "What's ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard
... till I left there. I was like an animal caught in a net, like a man struggling for air. You can't know what it is to me now to be with people who are thinking of something else than of how to make a few dollars in a miserable country store." ...
— Different Girls • Various
... in Walcott, New Haven county, Connecticut, in 1820. From early boyhood his taste was for mercantile pursuits. At the age of seventeen he obtained a position in an extensive country store at Bristol Basin, on the Farmington Canal, (now Plainville.) By diligence and perseverance, he was soon promoted from the duties of errand boy to a responsible position, and in course of time stood at the head of all the clerks ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... were poor?" says Sadie. "Why, Twombley-Crane says that his cousin's wife is one of the shrewdest business women he's ever heard of. He has been handling her investments, and says she must be worth half a million, at least; all made out of a country store, maple sugar bushes, and farm mortgages. I'm crazy to see her, ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... man who seemed doomed to failure it was U. S. Grant in the spring of 1861. He had cut loose from the profession for which he had been trained, and, after drifting from one occupation to another and failing in all, he was now, at thirty-nine years old, a clerk in a country store and unable to make ends meet at that. Three years later he was Lieutenant-General of the armies of the United States, and five years after ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... country store to make sure of their route they were informed that by taking to the railroad track for a short distance they ...
— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope
... his home," suggested Ned, as they came to a country store where there was a telephone. "It may be he has returned. In that case, all our worry has gone ...
— Tom Swift and his War Tank - or, Doing his Bit for Uncle Sam • Victor Appleton
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